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Re: Unzipping cygwin
- To: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Unzipping cygwin
- From: Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 10:24:59 -0400
- References: <20000801110938.20827.qmail@web125.yahoomail.com>
- Reply-To: cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 04:09:38AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>--- Paul J Nagy <machine@pcola.gulf.net> wrote:
>> I was not able to unzip with WinZip any of the sdcc or cygwin files:
>> sdccdoc_tar.tar
>> sdcc-2_2_0a_tar.tar
>> sdcc-2_2_0a_winbin-tar.tar
>> cygwin-1_1_3-1_tar.tar
>> cygwin-1_1_3-1-src_tar.tar
>>
>
>You've used Netscape to download the files and Netscape is notorious
>for mangling the file names. The fix, delete these files and download
>again using ftp.
Also, you are almost guaranteed to be disappointed if you use Winzip to extract
your files. Winzip will not preserve anything like the symbolic links in the
files and your directory structure will not be set up the way our "setup.exe"
program does things.
cgf
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